Identity Confusion Quotes

Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.

The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

Excuse me?" Jess asked in disbelief. "This is Frozen Zarek I'm talking to, right? Not some weird pod person?" He shook his head at Jess's joking. "It's me, dickless." "Hey, now, that's way too personal. I don't need to know that much about you.

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

Because Laura Palmer was dead... there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman.

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ". And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.